Posts Tagged ‘Conferences’

We’ll be at the Open Knowledge Conference in London on April 24th! Alex Selkirk will be giving a lightning talk, “Can We Have Our Cake and Eat It Too?: The Potential of a “Datatrust” to Open Personal Data While Protecting Privacy.” He’ll walk through an updated version of our datatrust demo that shows how differential privacy, in the form of PINQ, could be used to allow open-ended queries without revealing the presence of any one individual. (The updated version isn’t available yet, but for a look at the first version of the demo, The updated version isn’t quite complete, but for a description of how the old one worked, check out Tony Gibbon’s blog post here.)

All of us here have been wrestling with the demo and how it could be used in real-world scenarios. We’ve

We also look forward to hearing what others are doing to make information more publicly available. We’re particularly interested in the panel on community driven research, as well as the multi-national panel on opening up government data. It’s a great opportunity to hear from experts working on open government issues from a European perspective. In all the talk of open government and transparency, we don’t hear much about how governments are going to deal with privacy issues, despite the fact that much of what governments collect is very personal. We hope to hear about how these experts are dealing with these issues, especially given that the European understand of privacy seems to be very different from the American one, as evidenced by the Italian Google case.

Alex Selkirk will be speaking on a panel on Thursday, September 18, called, “Aggregation, Mining, Profiling: Who should be in control?” We’re looking forward to the feedback we’ll get at the conference, as we’re eager to share our ideas and learn from others who are on the program. We’ll provide more information on our presentation after the conference, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts.